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86485. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Shalil. From Consul H. D. 

 Baker, Kurram Valley, Northwest Frontier Province, India. The 

 shalil grows like a peach, which it much resembles in fruit and blos- 

 som. The flesh is yellow and sweet, but it is not so juicy as that 

 of the peach. It is said to be particularly valuable for cooking or 

 canning, owing to the hard flesh. Of interest to breeders. 



36717. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Peach. From Mr. Alfred 

 Welhaven, Unsan, Chosen (Korea). Bud wood obtained near Ping- 

 yang, Chosen, where the best blood-red peaches are said to grow. 



36724. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Peach. From Mr. F. N. 

 Meyer, Kalgan, Chihli, China. Reported as a small but hardy peach, 

 cultivated in sheltered localities in the northern parts of Chihli 

 Province. To be tested in regions north of the peach belt proper. 



AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Crosby nectarine. 

 From Rev. P. J. P. Hendriks, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. As 

 fruited in America, a juicy, good, rather thin-skinned, medium-sized 

 nectarine, suited to short, hot summers. Not a good keeper. Like 

 all nectarines, more subject to brown-rot than the peach. Careful 

 spraying is necessary to ripen a crop. 



AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Quetta nectarine. 

 From Lieut. W. L. Maxwell. Seedling from the best nectarine tree 

 in Quetta, British Baluchistan. Spreading, vigorous tree bearing 

 immense quantities of large fruits, green tinged with red. Fruited 

 in California. Pronounced by experts to be exceptionally fine and 

 worthy of wide dissemination because of its large size and good 

 color, notwithstanding the thin skin. Budded on A, davidiana. 



26503. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. A large, 

 freestone nectarine from E. Cotes, Simla, India. Said to have 

 come from Chinese Turkestan. Fruit creamy yellow, with red blush. 

 Flesh creamy white, red at stone. Juicy, crisp, subacid, and of very 

 good quality. Skin rather tough, but parts readily from the flesh. 

 A good shipper. 



30648. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Nectarine. 

 From Mr. F. N. Meyer, Guma, Chinese Turkestan. A small, kite 

 nectarine with white fruits. Said to have a fresh, sweet taste and to 

 possess good keeping qualities. Especially fit to be grown in arid 

 or semiarid regions under irrigation. 



